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The power of cloud-based analytics is indisputable, given its potential for simplicity and scalable computing power. But reality falls short of the “pie in the sky” promises of moving all data and all analytics to an open and public cloud.…

On Tuesday, May 21, Microsoft raised the curtain on its first new gaming console in nearly seven years: the Xbox One. In order to better understand how the Xbox One is being received by the larger tech community, we surveyed…

To get a bigger bang for the IT buck, IT managers like to optimize infrastructure for targeted applications and workloads. As I noted in a recent Intel Chip Chat, one way to do this is by creating CPUs targeted at…

As IT pros aim to make the most efficient use of their budgets, there is a rapidly increasing range of infrastructure options at their disposal.
While public cloud services in particular have exploded in popularity, especially for organizations without the…

Firewalls block basic attacks on your network and antivirus scanners filter known offenders, and no enterprise should operate without them. Still, focused attackers and zero-day exploits make short work of entrenched perimeter defenses, and every business should expect to be…

Eurapp is a new study being led by DERI at NUI Galway and GigaOM Research and was recently launched by the European Commission as part of its Digital Agenda: Startup Europe initiative. Eurapp brings together app developers, platform providers, policy…

While the goals of your business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DC) plans haven’t changed much, the tools available to support them have. On-premise storage has become cheaper and more manageable, while cloud-based solutions are faster, more secure and more…

There is a fun little question-asking technique called the 5 Whys. It was developed by Sakichi Toyoda at Toyota to determine the root cause — and solution — to any given problem in the manufacturing process. The technique has been…

The information-processing demands of many of today’s businesses have long outgrown legacy RDBMS software from Oracle, IBM, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL. In many cases DBAs are still stitching these systems together, adding another table and another join until…

Marco Arment — creator of Instapaper, co-founder of Tumblr and internet-famous software developer — has a knack for sharing unique and thoughtful insights on technology. Take, for example, public cloud–based storage services, such as Dropbox. Marco makes some salient points…

Open is the flavor du jour in enterprise software for big data. But it’s just the beginning.
The challenge of analyzing massive data sets has spurred a hotbed of creativity in open-source communities. While some of these are more novel…

Traditional analytics software forces you to choose between power and simplicity. Statistical analysis tools like SAS are powerful but require extensive coding experience, while visual reporting software like Tableau are business user accessible but don’t offer advanced analysis capabilities. Both…

Did you know that patients with heart stent surgeries who are depressed and don’t take their antidepressants triple their health care costs compared to similar patients who take their antidepressants? Our client did not. With databases full of conditions, treatments…

Apple has an ingenious knack for providing its customers with mobile devices they love. For its first fiscal quarter of 2013, the company announced iPhone sales of 47.8 million, up from 37 million in the year-ago quarter, and iPad sales…

The traditional approach to acquiring, managing and financing IT infrastructure is rapidly transforming through a combination of technology advancements and market structure shifts. Cloud computing set the technical underpinnings in motion, but the IaaS market options available to customers today…

Open is the flavor du jour in enterprise software for big data. But it’s just the beginning.
The challenge of analyzing massive data sets has spurred a hotbed of creativity in open-source communities. While some of these are more novel…

It’s a now-prevalent notion that companies can advance by simply adding a social layer on top of existing business processes, integrating social tools with existing functional tools such as ERP, CRM, and HR solutions. The idea goes that this will…

Responsive web design is all the craze when it comes to making websites look great on a multitude of devices. This is the must do marketing technology of 2013 — for web designers and marketers too.
Imagine if you could…

Apple has an ingenious knack for providing its customers with mobile devices they love. For its first fiscal quarter of 2013, the company announced iPhone sales of 47.8 million, up from 37 million in the year-ago quarter, and iPad sales…

For organizations that desire to retain ownership and control of the compute, storage and network equipment, co-location is a critical IT infrastructure solution.
However, traditional co-location typically lacks the transparency, automation and flexibility inherent in cloud services, making it difficult…